Norma Fox Mazer

young-adult novelist

Born:May 15, 1931

Died:October 17, 2009
(Vermont, USA)

Best Known as:Young-adult novelist

Norma Fox Mazer was best known has a young-adult novelist who tackled such controversial adolescent issues as poverty, betrayal,
abandonment, and death. She authored over 30 books in her career. Her novel After the Rain was named a Newbery Honor Book by the American
Library Association in 1988. Mazer was a finalist for the National Book Award for her novel A Figure of Speech. Her books were known for
their untidy endings: illness, death, and sorrow were common themes in her stories. Mazer died at the age of 78 on October 17, 2009.

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